What is the quote or saying you were taught by your parent(s) as a child that yo

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   goddess888posted 14 years ago

   That would be the Golden Rule. Do not do unto others what you don't want others to do unto you.

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   Atrixposted 14 years ago

   Why is a mouse when it spins? Because the higher the fewer.
   
   Intended to be used in reply to stupid questions.

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   Slices of Lifeposted 14 years ago

   "Smile", "Just do you're best", "Don't get angry if things go wrong", "Remember if someone is threatening your life, kill them first, so you don't have to worry about them anymore", "Never be afraid to act.", "Live life like it was your last", "Take care of your tools and they will take care of you."

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   LadyFaeposted 14 years ago

   Your enemy never sleeps and shoot for the moon, if you miss you hit the stars.

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   Kiwiwiposted 14 years ago

   My father use to tell me never underestimate your enemies, but be underestimated by them.Because when you make your move you will achieve success.
   
   Odd quote to be said to a child but he has a good point.

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   ibbarkingmadposted 14 years ago

   "Beats a stick in the eye."
   "I see said the blind man and pick up his hammer and saw."
   "Prove me right or prove me wrong but just prove me."
   "I feel like the North End of a South Bound mule."
   "Here we are the three of us."
   "Think before you leap."
   "Do it once, do it right."
   "Good enough for government work."
   "Boss Johnson."
   "Hold your boundaries."
   "Never start a fight but if you get in one win it."
   "Violence is the last solution and often it is the worse one."
   "You only fail if you don't try again."
   "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result."

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   manisha2877posted 14 years ago

   my mom says history repeats it self what ever you do today will come back to you tomorrow.do good you get very good you do bad you get the worst.

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   platinumOwl4posted 14 years ago

   "Every closed eye is not sleep and every goodbye is not gone"

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   cloudy_coolposted 14 years ago

   my mother was never happy with whatever i did, her encouraging trait was sadly missing...so she would simply nag me, beat me, abuse me to death and order me to ''turn over a new leaf''...

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    mama_emposted 14 years ago

    I pull this one out when asked to say grace in a public setting:
    
    "Abundance is poured out upon us and we partake of it gladly and gratefully acknowledge our blessings from God."

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    pajamazzonposted 14 years ago

    "Inah, Everything in moderation"- My Dad

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    Evil Stepmotherposted 14 years ago

    There are a few I've been taught that have stuck with me even now. 
    
    "Life isn't fair."
    
    "Money doesn't grow on trees."
    
    "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

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    lola123posted 14 years ago

    "sometimes you got to start in the back door in order to get the front"

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    TheQuietRebelposted 14 years ago

    "It is what it is, son."
    
    What a cop out!  This quote works for every situation you don't want to deal with.  Not that I had crummy parents or anything, but this line is truly a classic.

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    Kieran Gracieposted 14 years ago

    "Life's too short" whenever the house needed cleaning or something had gone wrong! Or "It's wherever you left it" in answer to "Mom, where's my ......?".

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    folorunsho80posted 14 years ago

    ''My child listen and obey the teachings of your parent,so that your days on earth will be long''

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    fit2dayposted 14 years ago

    "Never say never" it applies in a couple of ways. First is never saying something can't be done. The other way applies in not saying you'll never do something. For instance, many people who've said they would never drink are heavy drinkers today.

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    BrantleyFosterposted 14 years ago

    My mother suffers from clinical depression, and many times I would console her by giving her a hug and simply sitting with her.  When she pulled out of these episodes, she would sit me down, apologize, and tell me one important thing that I've carried with me always... "You are responsible for your own happiness." 
    
    She explained that this meant more than the obvious.  It also meant that it wasn't my fault if I couldn't make someone else happy.
    
    To this day I've lived as a happy person by remembering that I can make a conscious decision to be happy.  Thanks mom.

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    LatinLove000posted 14 years ago

    My mother, sister and I have always kept this saying: "What doesn't kill me makes me stronger." After I got my first tattoo, Mama got that particular saying as one as well. I believe it will be my next one because life is a journey and one will come to obstacles in this journey. However, if it doesn't kill you it will make you stronger and help you on your life journey.

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    vox vocisposted 14 years ago

    "Learn to stand on your own two feet."
    
    "Learn when is the right time to speak and when is the right time to keep quiet."
    
    "Always help other people, but don't let anybody make a fool out of you."

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    RealHousewifeposted 14 years ago

    My grandmom said the best stuff.....and when I would ask her what it meant - she would say, "you will understand when you need to." I did too....
    
    "There's more than one way to skin a cat." (Meaning there is more than one way to accomplish something - figure out another way if you do not have the means...)
    
    "You draw a lot more flies with honey than vineagar."  (People like nice people)

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    allUneed2knowposted 14 years ago

    never run with scissors...
    i'm still afraid of doing that so when i have to take the scissors to someone quickly i hold them by the handle and downwards and as far from my body as i can.... i kinda look stupid when i run like that, but better stupid than sorry

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    lambservantposted 14 years ago

    If they asked you to jump off a bridge would you do it?
    
    Because I said so.
    
    Because I'm the mother and you're the child
    
    I'm going to knock you up to a peak and knock the peak off (tongue in cheek, I was rarely even spanked)
    
    If you can't say something nice, don't say it at all.
    
    If you cross your eyes they'll stay that way.
    
    If you crack your knuckles you'll get arthritis
    
    Little pitchers have big ears
    
    If it ain't broke don't fix it.
    
    Want some cheese with your whine?
    
    God doesn't make junk

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    bethperryposted 14 years ago

    "I'm SICK and TIRED" Yeah, it was lame when I heard it and yet I say it to my own kids, lol.

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    .josh.posted 14 years ago

    I'm too new to this site to know if there's some sort award for best question, but if there is, it's yours.
    
    Sadly, the one I frequently use, and am fully aware comes from my parents, is "I don't know what to tell you" (that's just the way it is/too damn bad).

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    IntuitiveMindposted 14 years ago

    1. God works in mysterious ways
    2.Save money for a rainy day
    3. You get more bees with honey than you do with vinegar.

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    Nellieannaposted 14 years ago

    My dad quoted many things to me as a child.  One little poem about a little mousie who ignored the advice of her elders and was snapped into the mouse trap comes to mind.  But the most life-long useful was "If" by Rudyard Kipling.  It is an ideal I think of often - beginning to end.
    
    If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
    Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
    And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
    
    If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
    If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
    
    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
    And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son (daughter)!
    
    Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

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    Jlh21posted 14 years ago

    my mother and grandmother both always told me, "don't be sorry, be careful."

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    Eagletposted 13 years ago

    "anything worth doing is worth doing well" or "If you want it done right do it yourself"

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    shanayaposted 13 years ago

    My Dad Believe in Helping Other's and always say ' I Hope it comes back to me whenever My Family & Friends ever needs Help'.

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    AllSuretyBondsposted 13 years ago

    If you don't have anything nice to say....don't say anything at all. I think that saying has been useful at times.

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    Katya Drakeposted 13 years ago

    One is: "Follow your dreams"
    Another is "Im going to send you to Stodicry!" (Serbian for the old country)
    My Favorite is: "Work as if everything is up to you and pray as if everything is up to God" This quote has worked for me in my life time and time again! Thanks mom and dad!

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    dagny rothposted 13 years ago

    My Dad always said, "It's a good life if you don't weaken" whenever someone would ask him what he thought.  It's my definite go to line these days. LOL

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    C J Arbogast73posted 13 years ago

    I was taught that "What goes around, comes around ten times worse."

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    Dicaeopolisposted 13 years ago

    My grandmother always said, "Easy come, easy go" or "I've got time to make more money." She never, ever wasted money, but she was intensely generous. I sometimes wish I was more willing to spend money on my friends and family.

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    tfrickeyposted 13 years ago

    Find something that you love to do, then find a way to get paid for it! 

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    Mohammad Wasimposted 13 years ago

    If a child want to collect experinces of his own life. He needs to be old. To save the time, Children have to listen and learn from parents, Help him in the growing age.
    Parents already passed through the different hindrance of life. They have an experiences which naturally very helpful for their childern for better and prosper life to maintane.

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    RavenBikerposted 13 years ago

    Being from eastern europe, my parents had odd ways looking at things because they never adopted "American" culture.  Mom thinks she coined the phrase,
    "A penny saved is a penny earned"
    My mom is such a spendthrift, she still says, "Money is not for spending."
    
    My dad, on the other hand, said once, "Listen to Walter Cronkite>"  And when I couldn't find something, he said, "Look in the last place you're going to look."

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    jennzieposted 13 years ago

    The main one: "What goes around comes around"

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    twosevenposted 13 years ago

    Great question!  It's fun to see the range of responses.  My mom was a safety freak so she was always saying "necks!", as in, we needed to be careful doing whatever we were doing so we wouldn't break our necks.  My brother and I still make fun of her for saying this all the time. 
    
    The other one that stuck with me in a more meaningful way is that my parents were big on us taking responsibility for being aware of what we were doing.  The worst offense was to be "unconscious" - it was most important that we be conscious of what we were doing and how it affects others.  That has profoundly impacted me throughout my life.

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    Night Magicposted 13 years ago

    My dad always said, "Travel & enjoy yourself as much as you can when you're young in cause your health doesn't allow you to when you retire."

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    ArockDaNinjaposted 13 years ago

    'What goes around comes around'
    
    'Treat others the way you wish to be treated'
    
    'No way Jose'

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    Andrew McKenzieposted 13 years ago

    I still use "take all you want, but eat all you take" when it comes to my son's eating habits. My Mom and Grandma used to tell us that when we'd take huge helpings of food. Wasted food was not popular among the matriarchs of our family!

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    mvillecatposted 13 years ago

    My family were the southern version of National Lampoon's family the Griswolds. The Vacation movies didn't have anything on the years of mishap filled trips that my family took. I can just hear my mom's sigh and her saying,'It's always something.'

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    Rashad Alposted 13 years ago

    My parents always used to say: "No pain no gain..."

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    Gabbi Giffordposted 13 years ago

    Sweet dreams and may the angels sit on your pillow.

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    deblevey726posted 13 years ago

    I remember first being taught the common bedtime prayer"Now I lay me down to sleep.  I pray Thee Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray Thee Lord, my soul to take, Amen.  I don't pray this today, I just wing it impromtu.  But I still say the Lord's Prayer, and the common table prayer, which I was also taught at a very young age...I had just turned three. It's amazing to some people when I earnestly say we were not overly religious, but I learned something about faith and God before I learned anything else.  I think that's the way it ought to be for every child.

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    xXSweetiXxposted 13 years ago

    Some of the best things I have learned have come from my mother. One quote, I just used today: "If you stick your lip out any further, a bird might come along and poop on it".
    
    Others used:
    
    Always be your own rock
    Know how to stand on your own two feet
    Always go into the world, with your best side facing forward.

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    missnantzposted 13 years ago

    My parents taught me to observe the following, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  When a young girl, I once played a joke on a playmate of mine by giving him what appeared to be a very nice present on his birthday.  It wasn't a nice gift!  To this date, even though I can't recall what the gift was, I still feel guilt over hurting his feelings.  I've tried to live those words from my folks ever since.  If only the whole world could do the same, we would all be a lot happier!
    
    Nancy

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    MsDoraposted 13 years ago

    As part of her parenting advice, my grandmother used to say, "Say it short but say it often.  I still use it and practice it.

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